Peckover was born at Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, the son of Algernon Peckover, of Bank House, Wisbech, by Priscilla Alexander, daughter of Dykes Alexander, a Quaker banker, of Ipswich, Suffolk.

[6] The following year he was raised to the peerage as Baron Peckover, of Wisbech in the County of Cambridge.

[1] His daughter Elizabeth married the artist J. Doyle Penrose, they had four sons : Alexander Peckover, Lionel Sharples, Roland Algernon and Bernard Edmund.

[12] In 1864 Peckover's father Algernon founded the Wisbech Social Club and Institute; with the aim of providing the industrial classes an educational and recreational facility.

[13] In 1864 a group of gentleman banking friends including the Barclay brothers took Peckover on a Grand Tour of Egypt to ease his broken heart after the death of his young wife.

[15] Roads in Wisbech are named Quaker Lane, Peckover Drive and Penrose Gardens after the baron and his family.